I would really goto cpan.org, I will also go there and make a recomendation. Modules usaually are created to save time and effort by giving you an abstracted interface to different things, such as databases,system functions, etc... Or you will eventually wind up creating one to do the same thing that someone may have already done. I will reaserch this for you and provide you a link to a module that works with MYSQL dB's.